I like to buy high end and then keep it for a long time. I'd love local AI But even with a fairly large spend, these machines won't run that much local AI well and that's now, I'm not sure if in the future I'd want even more RAM, seems to be it is better to budget for an AI sub + a less insane machine.

I burn through my current Google AI pro sub for the week in about 2 and a half days so wanted something extra to add to it, but don’t want to buy any expensive ultra plan. Flash models have got me about 98% of what I need, but quotas are still a bit low.

I hate how difficult it is to compare prices when looking at subscriptions.

Would $20 in open router, using models like GLM get me more or less?

Ugh. I was waiting it out on a very old Mac, but the pricing these days is insane, so now to wait it out for at least two years more and hope for better pricing or just suck it up and pay a lot for less.

Meta Spark has been added as a free model, I guess as a replacement, since this is now the cheap model at reasonable intelligence.

It's available with Go (subscription) and they are working on making it cheaper after the recent price increase, that may see them add it back to free.

This realisation that you have come too, will likely lead to a better place, much like all struggles.

I pasted the same prompt into OpenCode, set to Deepseek v4 flash free and did it first try.

I'm was going to purchase Opencode GO to try it, but seems my timing is really bad :( hope it doesn't go up too much in Opencode or they find other providers. Bad timing!

Seems I can on one device today and not on the other. Seems they might be testing/starting that too.

Sometimes better to work with people when things go wrong via good intentions rather than turn around and sue them and break relationships completely.

Do with that information what you will, but it might be that you are looking at passion wrongly, expecting to 'find' something you are magically passionate about.

Beyond that, take care of your health, rest and play around with things to increase your surface area of finding something that works.

Reasoning came through evolution when we learned to communicate and needed to give reasons for things, not because we needed to figure out how to do things.

Caveman you, steals Caveman Dave's berries. You need to give Caveman Dave a good reason for why you did this, else you get bonk on head.

This explains a lot. The brain decides what it wants AND only then, does it decide the reasons why it wants it. It's a justification and excuse making machine.

Which is why people will argue and twist any fact or truth to match what they believe, they don't come up with what they believe through logic, they use logic to try and come up with a reason for what they believe.

When you really stop to think about that, it changes everything and explains a lot.

(This is outlined in the book The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding)

I went to a music festival last weekend, ticket has to be on the ticketmaster app which is android or iOS, the official app for the festival has timings and updates for the event which are very important else you will miss stuff that is announced, even safety warnings.

My train tickets were on the app, I needed it to book the Uber as well.

20% off drinks and food if you use the paypal app. You just can't do things without Android or iOS.

Thousands of people parked in random fields, parked in daylight, need to find car at night = Airtag/ map.

Everything is an app these days. It's a lot harder to do everything without such things. You wouldn't have been able to attend without such a device.

I hope they increase the quota and this is just a capacity issue.

But they basically killed it on the pro plan. Very disappointed and upset today, I've burnt through my weekly allowance on a handful of prompts trying to fix a bug that it's made worse. Now I can't use it for 6 days.

Most concert tickets are not standing and you used to get paper tickets you could just hand to someone else, why should you not be allowed to do this just because it moved to digital?